Krystyna Kurowska

Beyond Forest Expansion: State Forest Land Acquisitions as an Instrument of Sustainable Land Governance

Land-use conflicts in non-urbanized areas are fundamentally governance problems rather than purely environmental ones: sustainability outcomes increasingly depend on integrated, cross-sectoral decision-making reconciling forestry, agriculture, tourism, infrastructure, and urbaniz...

When a Good Photovoltaic Location Is Not Enough: Spatial–Economic Vulnerability of a 1 MW Solar Farm to Non-Market Curtailment—A Case Study from Poland

The rapid expansion of photovoltaic capacity in Poland has exposed distribution-grid constraints and increased the incidence of non-market curtailment. This paper examines a 1 MW ground-mounted photovoltaic plant in Zalesie, north-eastern Poland, using complete documentation. The...